So yeah, here's a new chapter of 'Dear Lisa'. Thanks to everyone who's followed, favorited, and reviewed so far!

I can't believe I forgot when I posted Chapter One that I did so on Wentworth Miller's birthday.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Legends of Tomorrow.

WORD COUNT: 1059

Saturday, October 18th, 1975

Dear Lisa,

To go with the old cliché, if you're reading this, either I'm dead or you're just too nosy for your own good.

I've said many times that even the best-laid plans can go sideways. We didn't have any well-laid plans today, and now Carter is dead.

It started off badly to begin with. Our next stop was Norway, where we were supposed to infiltrate an illegal arms auction, find Savage among the buyers, and kidnap him. Stein got us through the door, pretending to be a high-ranking member of some terrorist group called 'Scimitar' – which is a good thing, because I admittedly screwed up the entry plan. Not that I'll ever admit that anywhere other than in here.

Note to self: when swiping a guy's ID to gain entry, check to be sure it's a name the bouncer will believe I could have – there's no way he bought my claim that I'm half-Arab.

Of course, Savage turned out to be selling a nuke, so there was a lot more attention on him. There were a lot of dangerous people there – Sara IDed Damien Darhk, the guy who's been terrorizing Star City in 2016. He's well-known to the League of Assassins, the really old organization that trained her. Their leader, Ra's al Ghul (I admit I needed her help to spell that right) is hundreds of years old, thanks to some sort of Pit, which I'm guessing is what brought her back to life, and Darhk is somehow just as old. If there were any more of those at the auction, I'd start thinking this was some sort of social club for immortals.

Darhk probably made us the second he laid eyes on us. Stein insisted on bidding on the nuke to 'blend in', but we wound up winning and standing out. Darhk got right in our faces, said he knew everyone in the 'business' (if he's as old as Sara says, I believe it) and didn't know us. We got made when Stein chose his words poorly, and Savage offered a discount for whoever could kill us, so naturally a big fight broke out, and Firestorm had to fly off and contain the explosion when Savage activated the nuke. We got away with nothing – actually, less than nothing. A piece of Palmer's tech got knocked off his suit and got scooped up by Savage's goons. Rip showed us what would happen by 2016 if we didn't get it back before his scientists figured out how to reverse-engineer it: his plans would be sped up by decades and Central City, at least, would be a flaming wreck. All I could think of was whether or not you were alive in that mess. Or if the city hadn't been destroyed with Mom and/or Dad dying before you could even be born. I think now I get what Rip meant when he was talking about maintaining the timeline. One small oversight could destroy everything we care about.

So Rip split us up into teams. Stein and Ray figured out a way to track the missing tech, and Rip sent the Prof with Jax and Sara to grab something they needed from 1975 Stein. Kendra and Carter found something in Dr. Boardman's (their historian son from a past life) journal about an ancient dagger that could be used to kill Savage, then bugged off to go try unlocking more of her memories to translate some inscription on it. Naturally, I volunteered myself and Mick to go steal the knife from its current owner, but Rip made Ray tag along, instead of going to retrieve his own lost tech.

It all went to hell pretty quickly with the idiot genius tagging along. How someone can be simultaneously so smart and so stupid is beyond me. The amateur fell for a dummy box barely a minute after our arrival, so Mick and I had to deal with the security guards, and then he threw a fit about us stealing some other artifacts and triggered another security measure that got me and him stuck in a cage. Seriously, a big cage dropping out of the ceiling like we were in some sort of cartoon. He was moderately useful in deactivating the alarm, but by then, the owner came into the room, dragging Mick in a headlock. Guess what? Turns out 'Sasha Mahnovski' is just an alias for Vandal Savage. I wish I'd done more research into the guy we were stealing from. Just a picture would have alerted us to that little fact.

He had us call the team over, to give himself a chance at offing Kendra and Carter again, but he got more than what he bargained for, because Firestorm showed up first and blasted him across the room before breaking us out. Seems their part of the mission went better than ours. I gave Carter the dagger and the rest of us held off the guards while he and Kendra went to take down Savage.

By the time we got to them, Carter was dead and Kendra had been stabbed, so we grabbed her and ran back to the ship. 2 days into this insanity and we're already down a man. If it were any old job, I'd say the hell with it and walk away, but not only are we stuck in 1975 until Kendra heals, but I signed on to this team, and Carter wasn't just some lackey.

Savage is going to pay for this. Maybe Kendra's the only one who can kill him now, but before she does, I'm going to make sure I let him know what it means to mess with my crew.

One other thing: I started this as just a journal that wasn't meant for you to read, Lisa, but today's been a wake-up call. Like I said, we're a man down only 2 days in, so I really don't know what's going to happen next, or if the rest of us are all going to survive. If something happens to me, sis, at least you'll understand why.

I feel that some simple research could've made the dagger theft go a lot more smoothly, but after the Oculus reveal, it kinda makes sense that they wouldn't do that.

Also, I can't forget that Sara's sister's killer was within touching distance of the team and he got out unscathed. As an ex-member of the League, I'm not surprised he got away, but I'm betting this event ran through Sara's head when she learned about Laurel's death.

Okay, so thanks for reading, and check in next week for Chapter 3!